netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 4/8] tls: convert to generic sk

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:16:15 +0000
From:   Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:     "alexei.starovoitov@...il.com" <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        "john.fastabend@...il.com" <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 4/8] tls: convert to generic sk_msg interface

On 10/11/18 02:45 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Convert kTLS over to make use of sk_msg interface for plaintext and
> encrypted scattergather data, so it reuses all the sk_msg helpers
> and data structure which later on in a second step enables to glue
> this to BPF.

Looks very clean, thanks!

> 
> -static int zerocopy_from_iter(struct sock *sk, struct iov_iter *from,
> -			      int length, int *pages_used,
> -			      unsigned int *size_used,
> -			      struct scatterlist *to, int to_max_pages,
> -			      bool charge)
> -{

...

> -			err = zerocopy_from_iter(sk, out_iov, data_len, &pages,
> -						 chunk, &sgout[1],
> -						 (n_sgout - 1), false);
> +			err = tls_setup_from_iter(sk, out_iov, data_len,
> +						  &pages, chunk, &sgout[1],
> +						  (n_sgout - 1));

Any reason not to add the 'bool charge' to sk_msg_zerocopy_from_iter?
Then tls_setup_from_iter is not necessary.